Breast Cancer: Screening

(asked on 16th October 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were unable to achieve a successful set of mammograms because (a) they were unable to hold the required position for sufficient time and (b) the mammogram machine was not accessible to wheelchair users in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 22nd October 2024

NHS England does not hold this information centrally. However, NHS England is fully committed to modernising the breast screening programme and removing barriers to accessing screening.

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